Twat with a tele! 😀

Fantastic. Such quality.

If that is their ultimate strategy, then it’s naieve and is going to get us nowhere. The number one aim and the whole reason to exist is for the first team to be as good as it possibly can be. Focussing everything on the Academy and bringing through young players is totally missing the point. It’s getting harder and harder for lower league clubs to either keep these youngsters or sell them on for anything like their true value. The number one focus has to be, to get together the strongest first team squad we can, in any way we can. Get into the top division and then we have a far better chance of either keeping our academy lads or getting their true worth in the transfer market. This current set of owners are so naive they swallow whatever amateurs like Gestede tell them - and Gestede just tells ‘em what he thinks they want to hear. Totally and completely wrong.

Want to keep developing kids to make the first team? Easy, just drop down the leagues.

Ground development including the point and two hotels and also the new ground currently being built in Farrington.

Wish I could give this 2 likes.

We obviously have different opinions on what makes him so good in the air. For me the timing of his Jump and connection on the ball is the worst part, closely followed by his direction. Just being a big lump that occasionally manages to get his head on the ball means very little. How many headers has he scored since he’s been here? I genuinely don’t know but doubt it’s very many. Good headers from the past? Absolutely loads of them. He doesn’t come close IMO.

Had to happen. Gary Croft standing in for T20’s. The problems run deeper though. This is a poor squad. As David Loyd said a bowling squad needs real pace and quality leg spin. Hartley apart it’s full of medium pacers. On the batting front Lancs have been scoring at just over two runs per over. That’s no good, that’s just standing there and letting sides bowl at you. There are also rumours of club debt running too high not helped by being banned from staging concerts at the ground. I also dont think we have enough involvement from real cricket men in the boardroom. Chilton comes across as weak. It’s primarily short on cricketing knowledge.

A big lump who is one of the poorest headers of a ball that I can remember.

I was on the riverside for that game too. 40,000 packed into Ewood. Imagine it with 61,000 on!

30,000 in a ground nowhere near as big as the modern one. Imagine what it was like when the record attendance of 61,000 was set. 50,000 wasn’t uncommon then. Notice also - if you look closely enough - kids sat over the wall on the running track on all sides of the ground.

It’s a welcome move for me and normally I’d be looking forward to moving forward. Venkys have latched onto the obvious unrest at the club and with the fans. The problem is that they don’t understand what’s really happening down here, how the fans feel or have felt for the last 15 years, or what they need to do to turn all that around. They might be doing this with good intentions, or they might have other reasons but in my opinion they don’t understand and they never will. if you don’t understand the problem you can’t fix it.

Halfway up the PL when they took over. As others have said they’ve either cut, or tried to cut every asset of the club. Someone tell me what hasn’t been cut? No money available for anything. No ambition. No honesty about anything whatsoever. There’s only one possible worse situation that I can think of. Liquidation.